Food Tracking

For about a week earlier this month, I tried to record everything I ate. My main dietary goal was to maximize my protein and decrease my processed carbs. Plus I thought recording it (through the memo app on my phone) would help me track it all.

I want to get it off my phone but couldn't think of anywhere else to post it. So, here it is; maybe I learned (or will learn) something from it: 

Feb 3: Breakfast: 2 1/2 bowls Frosted Flakes with 1 pct milk
Lunch: 1 leg fried chicken, 1 svg pasta with eggplant and sauce, 2 apples, 2 slices cake
Dinner: 1 svg lowfat cottage cheese, salad no dressing, half a cantalope, half bar organic dark chocolate, 1/2 cup mixed frozen fruit

Feb 4: Bfast: half croissant, 1 svg egg/bacon/ssge
Lch: 1 svg cttge chs, small salad, three slices wheat brd, 5 slcs ham, 1 slc salami - 1/2 tsp yllw mustard, 1 small bag peanuts
Din: 1 svg cttg cheese, 1 cup melon, 1 onion in soup w/ chicken broth, 6 svgs tofu, 4 mushrooms, 1 beer, 1 cup mixed frzn fruit, 1 apple

Feb 5: Bfast: 3 eggs scrambled
Lunch: 1 svg brocoli, 1 svg carrots - both boiled, 1 chicken breast baked; cornbread
Din: didn't record anything

Feb 6: 3 eggs, 2 svgs melon, pasta w/ eggplant, svg cott ches, 1 orange, 2 slices whole wheat brd, 4 slices turkey, 1 turkey and cheese large sub, 1.5 rolls veggie sushi, 3 handfuls walnuts, svg watermelon, large hot chocolate

Weekend: didn't record anything

Feb 9: 4 eggs scrambled 402 calories 20 grams protein, 2 bananas 210 calories 3 grams protein, 3 slices white turkey 90 calories 15 grams protein, 3 slices wheat bread 210 calories 10.5 grams protein, cttg cheese 81 calories 14 grams protein, carrots 50 calories
Total so far (1:30 pm): 1050 calories and 62 grams protein :)

Dinner: didn't record anything

Feb 10: 2 svgs frstd flks, 2 svgs milk, 2 svgs vietnamese salad, 2 grlld chs (muenster), svg yogurt, svg frzn fruit

Feb 11: 3 eggs, 3 svgs cttg chs, slice wheat brd, 1/2 svg italian drssg, slice apple pie with scoop cream, roll, svg cole slaw, svg pork, svg baked beans

Vegans and Terrorism

What is terrorism? "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion."

What is terror? "a violent or destructive act."

A 6-week old girl died recently because of her (and her parents') vegan diet. Depending on how you look at it, the incident as reported was:

1. a ratcheting up of the 'threat level' that ignorant pose to America.
2. an act of terror by the parents, for which their convictions of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty were justified.

Whether or not the parents knew about the damage a vegan diet could do to a baby, their decisions led to its death. They did something that terrorized and killed this Atlanta boy.

But to the extent that this story was blown up... I mean the New York Times published an op-ed on it... this is an act of the right wing's effort to terrorize the nation (read the media labels: liberal, poor, minorities).

Do you agree that the media plays a part in escalating our feelings of terror in our culture? How can we have a full conversation about nutrition when so few truly comprehensive mediums exist for communicating to people ecologically and nutritionally safe habits?